Author Description

Spring in the Park is one book in the SENIOR STORIES series of color photography books with simple text designed to stimulate conversation and interaction between seniors with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. The readers will take a visual trip through a park to see cherry trees, tulips, daffodils and other blossoms as well as a toy sailboat on a pond, a picnic scene, a man in a rowboat...and more. The text invites the senior readers to tell what they like about the park in spring--which flowers are their favorites, what they'd eat at a picnic, whether they'd like a boat ride...Seniors might tell their own springtime memories, or tell a new story about a photo, or just enjoy looking at the images! Jed Levine, Executive Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the Alzheimer ́s Association, writes,"Spring in the Park is a book that can be shared by two people or enjoyed alone. For a person with dementia, these evocative pictures may momentarily jog a memory like the scent of lilacs or the taste of a ripe peach, reawakening a lost experience. These images of life's pleasures have the potential to stimulate conversation by rekindling warm feelings, which are captured in the pages of this special book." The author hopes both seniors and caregivers enjoy sharing the springtime scenes.